cockpit
\kɔk.pit\
The verdict
“cockpit” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #19,237. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,237
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Espace réservé au pilotage d’un avion, d’un bateau, d'une voiture de course.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cockpit · cockpit · French
cockpit · rank #19,237 · 11 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,237
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH coaching
Nearest frequency peer: coaching (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « cockpit »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- chorégraphe
chorégraphe
80,767 corpus weight
- cloître
cloître
80,766 corpus weight
- coaching
coaching
80,765 corpus weight
- cockpit
cockpit
80,764 corpus weight
- cognitive
cognitive
80,763 corpus weight
- combinés
combinés
80,762 corpus weight
What this shows « cockpit » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cockpit |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔk.pit\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #19,237 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « cockpit »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around cockpit (IPA \kɔk.pit\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #19,237 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Espace réservé au pilotage d’un avion, d’un bateau, d'une voiture de course.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for cockpit, with forms such as "ccockpit", "ccokpit", and "cocckpit". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is cockpit, spelled C-O-C-K-P-I-T.
Definition
- 1Espace réservé au pilotage d’un avion, d’un bateau, d'une voiture de course.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cockpit appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Cockpit. Genre de caisson ouvert sur le pont et à l’arrière de la cabine, où l’on peut se tenir sans être trop exposé au danger. C’est du cockpit qu’on barre en général.
Peut-on dire du mal du Petit Prince ? … Parmi les quelques critiques qui ont osé écorner le mythe, Jean-François Revel y voyait un "crétinisme sous cockpit qui prend des allures de sagesse", et Jean-Louis Bory dénonçait "une saint-sulpicerie douceâtre mêlant l'avion aux ailes d'anges, et l'archange à hélice" ...
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccockpit
- ccokpit
- cocckpit
- cockipt
- cockkpit
- cockpitt
- cockppit
- cockpti
- cocpkit
- cokcpit
- occkpit
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cockpit - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).